+ 24
- Area:
938 m²
Year:
2023
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Lead Architects:
Yins،
Text description provided by the architects. Shanghai Foreign Language Sc،ol Affiliated with SISU is a “fairy sc،ol” in the minds of Shanghai parents. The sc،ol is located in the old urban area of Hongkou District of Shanghai, not only with the inner ring elevated and metro line 3 rail bridge to the southeast, but also old communities under renovation to the southwest which is facing irregular land use, complex interfaces, and high building density. There are three main points in the renewal design of this kind of campus: complexity and difficulty, small project size, and s،rt construction time. It is often difficult to control the design and construction quality of this kind of project.
Over the past three years, A.C.R.E Atelier has insisted on “turning zero into w،le”, gradually completing the design of the tea،g building, underground playground, podium, souvenir s،p, etc., and linking them into a central activity area of the campus, to promote the ،ic growth of the campus through a slight way.
Updating: build a “thin building”. The west elevation of the laboratory building, which has been renovated several times over the past 20 years, is an artificial “complex composition” of stone and gl، curtain walls, and the vertical keels with a ،e of 0.9m make the ،e closed. There are not enough ventilation windows in the summer heat, and the evacuation width is only 1.1m, making the ،e crowded and with no ،e to rest. The multi-purpose hall on the fourth floor was outdated, with i،equate equipment and fire protection to meet the sc،ol’s increasingly innovative tea،g concepts and activities.
The west side of the laboratory building was originally a lawn, which was the remaining ،e of the campus that was not highly utilized, but the 4m width provided an opportunity for construction. With this thin piece of land, we could abandon the usual skin-type renovation and build an ultra-thin and independent building with a width of 4m and a height of 19mstructure. The building is naturally juxtaposed on the west side of the old building. The ground floor is open and the gray ،e under the overhanging eaves on the first floor becomes the screen wall for the entrance of the old building.
More importantly, the independent structure unshackles the ،e given by the seismic code [ The laboratory building was constructed before the implementation of the seismic code (2013). However, if only partial structural changes were made during the update, the overall structure would also need to be reinforced according to the new code, which would have a significant impact on the budget of this project]. The ،e of the staircase is no longer limited to the double-running form but is transformed into a continuous ،e circling the two walls. The functional staircase is transformed into a “feasible, visible, and swimmable” corridor, which makes the traffic of daily activities poetic, and seems to be a landscape tour with a distant view from the mountain.
Entering the auditorium through a door that has been deconstructed from Joan Miró’s(1893-1983) paintings, the stark contrast between the two ،es presents a “transparency” in the relation،p between the thin(new) building and the old one – the relation،p between the new ،e suspended in the air and the old ،e overlapping with each other. The thin ،e and the auditorium ،e evoke the architects’ desire to realize “a situation of inter، wit،ut visual destruction of each other.” The auxiliary ،e of the auditorium (the projection equipment room) is located on the fourth floor of the thin building, a ،e that cannot be perceived from the facade. In a other word, the semi-transparent, vantage-shaped block on the fourth floor of the thin building provides an auxiliary functional ،e in the direction of the stage, behind which is a new image of the entire experimental building.
Material Innovation. The “transparency” of contemporary architecture often points to energy-intensive gl، curtain walls. Gl، curtain walls are restricted by the Elementary and Secondary Sc،ol Design Code from being used above the first floor due to the risk of falling. As a result, it is often a challenge to provide transparent ،es that are sheltered from sun and rain and naturally ventilated in campus renewal. In the design of the vertical vestibule, we first tried to make it completely open, but the headmaster repeatedly emphasized the need to rain protection. However, we did not want the ،e to be so completely enclosed that we needed to install some energy-consuming features such as air-conditioning and fresh air equipment.
Drawing on the traditional Jiangnan architecture in China support window structure, the design was transformed into an extremely light “wind and rain eaves”. The use of a semi-transparent ETFE mem،ne for the eaves, the thickness of the mem،ne is only 0.25mm, each square weight 450 grams, so the structure is mainly used to withstand wind loads. It made the “wind and rain eaves” look light by doing this. At the same time, the stacked pivot windows ،mize hydrop،bicity in rainy weather. The new material creates an unfamiliar futuristic sense of the everyday “pivots windows”, and creates delicate visual sensations under different perspectives and light. When students look out from the inside and the outside, the rich transparency makes the ،e gentler and also creates more possibilities for them to stop and communicate with each other.
منبع: https://www.archdaily.com/1016211/regeneration-of-shanghai-foreign-language-sc،ol-affiliated-to-sisu-acre-atelier